Improvement in wire dish-stands



GEORGE D. DUDLEY.

improvement in Wire Dish Stands.

Patented March I9, i872.

Inventor.

GEORGE D. DUDLEY, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD P. WOODS,DANIEL SHERWOOD, AND CYRUS H. LATHAM, OF SAME I PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE DISH-STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,798, dated March19, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improve ments in the Construction ofDish-Stands or Mats, used as articles of furniture for-the table, 850.,invented by GEORGE D. DUDLEY, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex andState of Massachusetts.

This invention is designed as an improvement upon the Letters Patent No.89,440, granted April 27, 1869, to Daniel Sherwood,

for a dishstand; and it consists in a novelmanner of constructing thestand, whereby the number of parts composing the stand is re- GeneralDescription.

This stand is formed of two parts, the supporting-surface A and. thebase-rin g B, which are constructed separately and afterwards unitedtogether. The surface A, consisting of the radiating arms a a, is formedof a single piece of wire in the following manner: A strand of wire, ofthe proper dimensions as to length and thickness, is bent around aformer, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to form a series of loops equal innumber to the radial bars or arms required. A piece of wire, 0, is theninserted at one end through all the loops and drawn up and bent so thatthe two ends may be twisted together. This will draw these ends of theloops together so that they will form the center, and will throw out theother ends so that they will approach the position shown in Fig. 3. Thenext stage of the pperation consists in twisting up each separate loopso that the part A will assume the form shown in Fig. 4.. The base isformed of the ring B, composed of twisted or other wire, and theradiating arms a, after being bent into proper shape, are united to thering B by turning up the ends so as to embrace it; or the required shapemay be given to the stand after the parts are united by bending itaround a former. The wire I), used in forming the center of thesupporting surface A, may have its ends cut off close after they aretwisted up; or the ends may be left long and twisted together at thesame time as the other arms I), sothat it will form an additional arm.

By this method'of construction, in addition to the advantage gained inhaving few parts, 850., the union of the wires at the center and baseare left smooth, with no rough or sharp edges but the two grasping-wiresb, which is a desideratuin.

Claim.

As a new and improved article of manufacture, a wire stand or holder,constructed substantially in the manner described and specified.

Witnesses: GEO. D. DUDLEY. v

T. E. MANLEY, I. A. WHITNEY.

